(from https://twitter.com/PolitiFact?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor)
". . . In an @Axios interview, @realDonaldTrump claimed "We're the only country in the world where a person comes in and has a baby, and the baby is essentially a citizen of the United States." About 30 other countries offer birthright citizenship, too. . ."
Those countries are: (from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jus_soli)
- Belize
- Bolivia
- Brazil(requires that the foreign parents are not working for their country's government in Brazil by the time the child is born).
- Canada
- Chad (The choice to take Chadian citizenship, or that of the parents is made at 18 years of age.)
- Chile
- Costa Rica (requires registration with the Costa Rican government before the age of twenty-five)
- Cuba
- Dominica
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- Fiji
- Grenada
- Guatemala
- Guyana
- Honduras
- Jamaica
- Lesotho
- Mexico
- Nicaragua
- Pakistan
- Panama
- Paraguay
- Peru (registration required at 18 years of age)
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saint Lucia
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Tuval
- United States: The 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution provides that "all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside".[The phrase "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" excludes children born to foreign diplomats and children born to enemy forces engaged in hostile occupation of the country's territory.
- Uruguay
- Venezuela
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